MARINA DEL REY, Calif., Nov. 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- At one of the most influential gatherings of healthcare policy leaders and visionaries who are driving healthcare's formidable transition to digital, connected, value-based care, 4medica President Gregg Church will speak on the core technology component to make this massive shift: accurate patient identity matching. Church will be a participant on the panel "Empowering Patients and Improving Outcomes: Challenges and Opportunities in Linking Clinical and Claims Data," Friday, Nov. 30th, from 10:45 am to 12 pm Eastern, at the ONC 2018 Meeting in Washington, D.C.
"Many experts across the healthcare system have long identified the ability to match patients efficiently, accurately, and to scale as a critical interoperability need for the nation's growing health IT infrastructure," said Don Rucker, M.D., National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
4medica is immersed in helping numerous regulatory and industry organizations shape strategy around patient identity matching—including eHI, PEW Charitable Trusts, AHIMA, ONC, GAO, HIMSS and SHIEC.
At ONC's Interoperability Forum this summer, 4medica customers The Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) and New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), presented to attendees how they were using the 4medica Big Data MPI (master patient index) to match patient data to the right medical records for tens of millions of patient identities, collectively. They also presented this topic at the national gathering of state HIEs and HINs, the 2018 SHIEC Annual Meeting.
"We can't overstate the fundamental importance of accurate patient matching for patient data integrity. NeHII's own partnership with 4medica enables wide-scale patient identity matching for mission-critical healthcare programs in our state; from population health management to prescription drug monitoring programs," noted Jaime Bland, CEO of NeHII.
Earlier this year, 4medica founder Oleg Bess, M.D., spoke to attendees at the Community Information Exchange Summit in San Diego, and Church also showcased the company's enterprise approach to patient identity matching at the 2018 Connecting Michigan for Health Conference.
Additionally, Bess and Church recently co-authored a byline that scrutinizes some of the toughest questions surrounding the "one patient, one record" mission in healthcare. This is a mission 4medica ardently advocates for, and offers enlightening answers to in Bess and Church's byline "5 Questions for the Patient-Centered Data Home."
"With so many healthcare leaders gathered in one place, many ideas and decisions will take place at the ONC 2018 Annual Meeting that will directly impact our national health in 2019 and beyond. We are committed to making sure that accurate patient matching is top of mind for these leaders, as it is the core component for a holistic, interoperable healthcare system," said Gregg Church, President, 4medica.
Members of the media attending the ONC 2018 Meeting are invited to schedule an interview with Gregg Church by contacting Stephanie Janard, Amendola Communications for 4medica, at sjanard@acmarketingpr.com or 828.288.2831.
About 4medica
4medica provides the industry's leading SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) Big Data MPI and clinical data exchange platform to help healthcare organizations of diverse types create a seamless view of the patient care experience and further drive better health outcomes. The 4medica Big Data MPI, 4medica Big Data CDR, 4medica Big Data Enrichment and ClinXdata Clinical Data Exchange platform integrate with and build upon disparate systems to facilitate patient identity management and interoperable data exchange across various care settings to promote care continuity. The cloud computing model is scalable, lower cost, maintenance-free, easy to use and deployable in a few months or less, eliminating large capital outlays or resource utilization. 4medica connects hundreds of organizations including ACOS, HIEs, hospitals, health systems, physicians, laboratories, and radiology imaging centers. Learn more at www.4medica.com and www.bigdatampi.com.
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